Director, Data Engineering and Analytics

About Howl

Launched in 2022, Howl is a creator-first social commerce platform, democratizing the creator economy by empowering diverse creators to increase revenue with their easy to use and transparent proprietary platform. By changing the way creators and brands connect, Howl is opening doors for often overlooked entrepreneurs to succeed.  No other platform is as community driven, encouraging brands and creators to connect.

Creators on Howl don’t gate-keep on what’s working for them.  With financial incentives that encourage their best partners to proactively share insights and rewards with other creators, one creator’s success becomes many. Since inception, Howl has paid over $100M to creators.

About the Role

Howl is seeking a Director of Data Engineering and Analytics to lead and scale our data team, infrastructure and engineering efforts. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to drive data strategy, ensure data quality, optimize platform performance and manage operational costs. As an engineering leader you'll have a direct impact on the customer experience for creators, brands and internal users.

The Impact you’ll have

• Provide thought-leadership, deliver solutions to strategic problems and support the product roadmap
• Manage a data engineering, business intelligence, and business analyst team
• Design and maintain scalable, reliable data architectures including data lakes, warehouses and pipelines
• Ensure clean, accurate, and timely data availability to support product features, embedded analytics, organizational decision-making and analytics
• Design and implement data pipelines and transformation workflows that are optimized for flexibility and data quality, leveraging best-in-class tools for transformation, observability, and testing

The Experience you’ll bring

• Experience designing and building data engineering pipelines, cloud solutions, ETLs, databases, visualizations and analytical platforms
• Experience leading, hiring and growing a team of data engineers, business intelligence engineers, and business analysts that own mission critical product and business systems
• 8+ years of experience in data engineering, embedded analytics, business intelligence and cloud data infrastructure
• High level of proficiency with SQL, Python and related libraries / frameworks
• Ability to build high quality complex solutions and work collaboratively with cross functional teams in a fully remote work environment
• Strong oral and written communication skills, capable of both hands-on technical work and guiding teams through influence and strategic direction, including engaging with C-level stakeholders

What we offer:

• Market competitive and pay equity-focused compensation structure
• 100% paid health insurance for employees with 80% coverage for dependents; with FSA and HSA compatibility 
• 100% coverage of Teledoc services & One Medical memberships for employees and dependents  
• Flexible PTO and 20 days paid Holidays 
• WFH stipend 
• Retirement planning- 401k through Empower 
• Talkspace membership 
• Paid parental leave of 12 weeks for all new parents 

The base salary range for this role is $225,000 - $250,000. 

At Howl, we offer a competitive compensation package inclusive of base salary, incentive pay and stock options. Incentive awards are allocated based on individual performance. Certain roles also have the opportunity to earn sales incentives based on revenue, depending on the terms of the plan and the employee’s role.

Howl is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or veteran status.